Frome St. Quintin / Frome St. Quinton / Litelfrome
Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Scene Description: two per side of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 2 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Frome_St_Quinton,_font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3171656.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Frome St Quintin Church. Set apart from its village on a corner of a field"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 1991
Image Source: digital image of 27 April 1991 by Martin Bodman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frome_St_Quintin_Church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_38298.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Frome St Quinton: font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 2 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Frome_St_Quinton,_font_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3171656.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk.fromestquinton.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 09333FRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Frome St Quintin, Dorchester, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A37, 18 km NW of Dorchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Tollerford [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Frome St Quintin [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST5902/frome-st-quintin/] [accessed 31 May 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. C13. Octagonal, Purbeck marble, each side with two shallow blank pointed arches." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "no subsidiary shafts". Baptismal font from ca. 1200 made of Purbeck marble [source: www.sdfhs.org]. Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk.fromestquinton.htm]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.82213, -2.5707
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 49′ 19.67″ N, 2° 34′ 14.52″ W
UTM: 30U 530239 5630133
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 76
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972